My dear friend Hofan Chau invited me to work on a project with Symbiotic Dance Troupe. The title of the project was called "Chords with Circle of Life 2011". Symbiotic Dance Troupe include performers with different types of disabilities. Which now I see it as their beautiful individual abilities. Four out of five performers that I worked with are wheelchair users and all of them were intellectually different.
It was my first time working with other performers who has physical and mental challenges. I was already 6 month pregnant when we started the rehearsal. Every rehearsal, without a day of failure, they welcomed me with great smiles, cheers and big hugs. It was very strange to measure one's ability and disabilities. Because I do not speak their language, (Cantonese) so in a way, I had a disability in communicating. And as the time goes by, my physical ability was limited as well because of my big belly pregnancy! So in many ways, I did experience the same situations as they might have experiences in their everyday life. For example, having a difficulty in putting a socks on! or communicating what you really want to do or to say to the other person. We had a two months rehearsal time with them before the show.
Together with the collaboration of the musician Wong Hin Yan and the choreographer/ director Hofan, we created a piece that is unforgettable!
-working in progress photo by Hofan Chau-
今年も終わり数日にせまったある日、思いもよらない贈り物に出会いました。うちの近くのゴミ捨て場に謎の宝箱が！とっても古く、中に何か住んでいそうな気配がある宝箱。ほかにも古い家具が捨ててあったので、引っ越しするひとが捨てていったよう。かなり汚れてはいたものの、木彫りでとても素敵だったので旦那と一緒に拾ってきてしまいました。笑）捨てられていたものでもまごころ込めてごしごしすること数時間、とっても奇麗に生まれ変わりました。：）
